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Ecclesiastes 3:18 Cross-References
Explore 16 cross-references for Ecclesiastes 3:18 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verse 18 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. that God: or, that they might clear God, and see, etc”
Ecclesiastes 3:18 (KJV)
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Commentary on Ecclesiastes 3:18
That God might manifest them (לִבְרָם, libram)—literally 'to test them' or 'to clarify them.' Qoheleth confronts humanity's shared mortality with beasts, using brutal realism to strip away pretension. That they might see that they themselves are beasts (בְּהֵמָה הֵמָּה, behemah hemmah)—the phrase emphasizes identity, forcing acknowledgment of our creaturely status apart from divine revelation.This verse introduces one of Scripture's most unsettling meditations on mortality 'under the sun' (the Preacher's phrase for life without eternal perspective). The Hebrew behemah refers to domesticated an...
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Cross-References for Ecclesiastes 3:18
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“So foolish was I”
“despite his riches”
“as unreasoning creatures”
“and after this”
“Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.,And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;,וּלְאָדָם אָמַר כִּי־שָׁמַעְתָּ[c] לְקוֹל אִשְׁתֶּךָ וַתֹּאכַל מִן־הָעֵץ אֲשֶׁר צִוִּיתִיךָ לֵאמֹר לֹא תֹאכַל מִמֶּנּוּ אֲרוּרָה הָאֲדָמָה בַּעֲבוּרֶךָ בְּעִצָּבוֹן תֹּאכֲלֶנָּה כֹּל יְמֵי חַיֶּיךָ׃ ,And unto Adam He said: Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife”
“which he prepared beforehand for glory”
“All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;,For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:,,,,,,,,”
“that you may be justified?”
“Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.”
“and you only”